Conversations Across the Creek | Habitecture and Digital Nature: Design for Biodiversity

Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the aim of stimulating and unearthing research and teaching collaborations across the university.

Join us for the first Conversation for 2018, where three diverse scholars 'cross' Sullivan's Creek, presenting on their latest research. The topic of this event is Habitecture and Digital Nature: Design for Biodiversity.

Canberra is famously a designed city, but design has traditionally focused on human imperatives. Design has helped lead us to our current predicament, where habitat loss, environmental degradation and climate change all threaten the integrity of our living environment. How can design change its role, and support biodiversity in urban ecosystems? Reporting on early stages of this collaboration we present designs for direct intervention, creating artificial habitat structures or “habitecture”, and opportunities for digital design to amplify engagement with our living environment.